Words of her own : women authors in nineteenth-century Bengal / Maroona Murmu.
Murmu, Maroona| Call Number | 891.4409252 |
| Author | Murmu, Maroona, author. |
| Title | Words of her own : women authors in nineteenth-century Bengal / Maroona Murmu. |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (xvi, 439 pages) : illustrations (black and white). |
| Series | Oxford scholarship online |
| Summary | Drawing on a spectrum of genres, such as autobiographies, diaries, didactic tracts, novels and travelogues, this book examines the socio-cultural incentives that enabled the emergence of middle-class Hindu and Brahmo women authors as an ever-growing distinct category in nineteenth century in Bengal and factors facilitating production and circulation of their creations. By exploring the intersections of class, caste, gender, language, religion, culture in women-authored texts and by reading these within a specific milieu, the study opens up the possibility of re-configuring mainstream history writing that often ignores them. |
| Subject | Bengali literature Women authors 20th century History and criticism. Women authors, Bengali 19th century Biography. |
| Multimedia |
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| Summary | Drawing on a spectrum of genres, such as autobiographies, diaries, didactic tracts, novels and travelogues, this book examines the socio-cultural incentives that enabled the emergence of middle-class Hindu and Brahmo women authors as an ever-growing distinct category in nineteenth century in Bengal and factors facilitating production and circulation of their creations. By exploring the intersections of class, caste, gender, language, religion, culture in women-authored texts and by reading these within a specific milieu, the study opens up the possibility of re-configuring mainstream history writing that often ignores them. |
| Subject | Bengali literature Women authors 20th century History and criticism. Women authors, Bengali 19th century Biography. |
| Multimedia |